Saturday, February 14, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG...MAD, CHEESE (COMPLETE THIS SENTENCE)

The Gonzo Daily - Valentine's Day
 
This is always a weird week for me. Ten years ago on Sunday Corinna and I met, and nine years ago I spent the night in the Intensive Care Unit of North Devon District Hospital holding my father's hand and waiting for him to die. The experience ended up in my song 'The Long Goodbye' from my last album. Check it out if you feel that way inclined. So this weekend is always a bittersweet one for me. It is also the beginning of spring, at least in my garden. I remember leaving the house to be with my father, and the garden was grey and lifeless, but when I returned in the morning the first spring flowers were out. Ever since, it has always been the same, and it makes me wonder whether the feast day celebrated on the 14th February each year truly is to commemorate a Roman bishop who was allegedly beaten to death and then beheaded on this day by order of the Emperor Claudius in 269AD, or whether it was just a convenient way of keeping an old pagan fertility festival alive. After all, experts are divided as to whether there were two or even three St Valentines, or even whether he existed at all. I tend to think that my theory suggested above is quite possibly correct.
 
But I would say that wouldn't I?
 
Toodle Pip!
 
 
The Gonzo Weekly #117
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Daevid Allen, UK, Eddie Jobson, John Wetton, Peter Banks, Sidonie Jordan, Empire, Jon Anderson, Yes, and Hawkwind fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#117) will soon be available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Daevid Allen, we have exclusive words and pictures from last weekend's Drones 4 Daevid benefit/celebration show in Brighton, and Doug Harr explains about the final farewell tour from the band UK. There are shows from Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are still lost at sea, although I have been assured that they will hit land again soon. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons trying to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials having difficulty in making choices, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
 

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
 
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
 

* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
 
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
 
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!
 
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the infantile orange cat?
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